Transparency and Accountability, Tree by Tree: Peru

Transparency and Accountability, Tree by Tree: Peru

July 13, 2015

EIA has created a briefing to provide an overview of Peru's Agency for Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR), an autonomous government entity with sanctioning powers that has conducted thousands of field inspections of logging operations since 2009. OSINFOR's contribution to increasing forest oversight and supply chain transparency offers a unique model with lessons relevant to other countries for improving governance in a complex, troubled sector.

In this fourth installment of EIA’s Raw Intelligence series, we introduce you to the company Hua Jia – one of the most emblematic timber companies in Gabon. Hua Jia officials had much to say on how they and others in the industry operate – and cheat their way to profit-laden pockets.

In 2018 the Environmental Investigation Agency continued to confront the greatest environmental threats facing the world today. The EIA team pursued, documented and exposed the activities of syndicates that threaten endangered species, damage the climate and ozone layer, and drive the trade in timber stolen from the world’s most important remaining forests.

In this fourth installment of EIA’s Raw Intelligence series, we introduce you to the company Hua Jia – one of the most emblematic timber companies in Gabon. Hua Jia officials had much to say on how they and others in the industry operate – and cheat their way to profit-laden pockets.